CCS, or Combined Charging System, was the standard in North America and used by every automaker except for Tesla, which ...

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they’re ultimately doing so because of a choice that dates back to Musk’s early days with Tesla. To that point, even though Lucid’s first model, the Air sedan, has the charge port behind the ...

so its choice of charge port location was important and influential. Peter Rawlinson was the chief designer of Tesla’s Model S, its first EV designed from the ground-up. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ...

Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson was the chief engineer of the Model S when Elon Musk determined the placement of the Tesla charging port. The two no longer speak. With Rawlinson moving on to create a Tesla ...

Earlier this month, the Out of Spec Reviews YouTube channel shared a video showing a 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 casually beating a 2025 Tesla Model 3 LR ... with a front charge port, thanks to the ...

Recently Rawlinson sat down with PC Magazine and detailed how Musk chose the spot for Tesla’s charging ports. In his meeting with Musk, Rawlinson suggested that the charging port for the Model S ...

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Rawlinson said he told Tesla CEO Elon Musk that the Model S charging port should be on the left front fender, between the wheel and the driver’s door. “Most Americans drive nose in rather than ...

Fast charging today is shifting to refer to connectors capable of delivering 150 kw or more. Many charging station connectors ...